I have never been called white man so much in my life haha it’s so crazy!

            So I have been transferred all the way down to the South Carolina line, in a little place called Pembroke….. it’s the smallest place I have ever been. The one the big thing is the University but other than that we don’t have anything besides a Wal-Mart. I mean we even have a PO box  which reminds me if anyone wants to send me Christmas mail (wink wink haha) you’ll need to send it to my address which is:

985 Old Mail Road

PO Box 3125
Pembroke, NC 28372

            Now there is a small chance that I will be transferred  and I will find out on December the 9^th so if I do then my address will change…. But I don’t think that will happen… or at least I hope not.

            So a little more about Pembroke; about 95% of the people here are Native American from the Lumbe Tribe. It’s not a reservation but I tell you it's really close. There are stray dogs everywhere. At church I was the one white person…. That was really different as even my companion is a Native American from Nevada (his name is Elder Yankton) and I tell you what I have never been called white man so much in my life haha it’s so crazy! But its great here, there is about 3 young men that are about to go on missions and another one who just got back and we have some great investigators. One lady named Ann is progressing great! She hasn’t smoked for about a week and is reading and praying every day! Also her husband just got into town yesterday and he wants to learn, and then her 5 kids are coming Thursday, she just found a job and she has a lot of friends at church! So the work is going forth!

            O another funny thing is that we live in a trailer right behind the church (like in order to get there you have to drive through the church parking lot) and then our Neighbors are some Horses and the college football field,  where they practice all the time. On Saturday they had a game and where they just blare the music so it was way funny when I first heard the game going on. The members have been really nice. The funny thing here is that they have the same last name out of about 4 names, one big one is Locklear so that makes its easy to remember people’s names but then everyone goes by their first names here so that makes it a little harder... haha but its been a lot of fun.

            So it kind of hit me last week that in less than a month I will have been out on my mission a year and a half….. because Elder Yankton came out with me and then with this member Elder coming home from his mission everyone here is telling me that the last 6 months fly by. Then I thought of Timothie and then it hit me if I was a sister missionary I would be going home. Then we were at a members home who just moved from Arizona about a year ago so half way through dinner as we were talking it came out that I had been out of Arizona longer then had….. but it really doesn’t feel like it and it’s not bothering me. I just was just thinking it was way funny so I thought I would share it.   

            Well I love you all so much and I'm so grateful to be out here in the South and thank you all for then many things that you do!

LOVE, ELDER MAUGHAN!      [~_~]  _|,,|